The first patent - referred to as "patent 379" - was issued to Philips in September 2001. It relates to a "Virtual Body Controlling Device," and Philips chas claimed that it informed Nintendo of its existence in a letter sent in November, 2011. The full patent can be found here.

The second patent - referred to as "patent 231" - is more ambiguous, as it was only filed by Philips in September 2013, well after the Wii had fallen from public favour and comfortably after the launch of the Wii U. It relates to a, "User Interface System Based on Pointing Device," and it can be found here.

Philips' claims seem to relate principally to the Wii Remote Controller, and specifically Wii MotionPlus. However, the suit argues that these devices are so essential to the experience offered by the consoles that they should not be considered as separate.

I dont recall phillips having a hand in the creation of any of these devices.

I just think they are trying to kick Nintendo while they are down, nothing more than patent trolling. And after what Phillips did when given the opportunity to create not 1, but 3 Zelda games... i think they should stay very quite.

Another example I suspect of how broken the global patent system is, all the patent system as is, tends to do nowadays is hold back human technological development, I suspect instead of generating profits it's putting a stopper on overall growth and damaging economies more than it contributes.

Companies can file bogus vague patents then take people who've been using the tech that may be remotely related to whatever they filed for donkeys years to court doing nothing but filling courtrooms wasting millions and making even more lawyers happy, it's like that darned episode of farscape the one where 90% of the populace turned into lawyers in some planet or other, the more lawyers there are the more they make reasons for there to be even more, the lawmakers are all lawyers as it is.

There no such thing as intellectual property, there no such thing as property either mind, land and buildings exist, property doesn't, hell even money is a concept, nowadays backed by nothing atall, there all just concept's and so can be changed, think of all the products that could be created if people were more free to combine all the latest innovations together whilst only having to pay a pre-set fixed percentage of final product cost fee for all patents used, no matter how many, and all these innovative products would help spure more innovative products, as they tend to do, the shere numbers sold would ensure inventors got their money's worthand and yet more potential for profit, no patents as they currently are now nothing but a blight on society, providing nothing of benefit to society companies or inventor's alike.